ELYSIA'S POVAsher's eyes were wide open as he stared at the band on my wrist, I was equally taken aback because I didn't remember putting that wristband on.He began to panic and curse under his breath as he tugged at the band, but no matter how much he pulled, he did not succeed in getting it off."It won't come off." I heard him mutter under his breath, beads of sweat were starting to gather on his forehead.Nikolai also took his turn in trying to get the wristband off but it wouldn't come off no matter how much he tried."Shit." I heard Asher curse and kick angrily. "This is definitely Serafina's handwork."While we were still trying to get the band off, the doctor walked into the room with a stethoscope around his neck."She seems fine now," Asher whispered, "Is there any other test you would want to run on her? To ascertain if she is completely fine."The doctor walked closer and placed the stethoscope on my chest to listen to my heartbeat, then he asked if I was feeling any pai
ELYSIA'S POVAs soon as I was inside the cave, I started exploring the insides carefully even though I had no idea exactly what I was looking for.I had the chance to explore the part of the cave I didn't get the chance to check out the first time I had come into the cave because I had been too shocked and terrified by Aurora's death, and we had left in a hurry too.While exploring the cave and trying to find anything I could, I found a small bag on the ground, in an almost secluded corner of the cave. When I checked the bag, I found some writings and journals that I believed belonged to Finnegan. I thought they might be important even though I didn't know how yet so I decided to take them to Asher who was at the other side of the cave going through the rest of Aurora's items.He was surprised when he turned back and saw me in the cave."How did you get it?" He asked, hugging me."I found another entrance, and I'm sure not many people know about it," I told him, wondering how many peo
ELYSIA'S POVIt was getting scarier by the meeting even as I struggled hard to wake up, but I found myself unable to, no matter how much I tried.Serafina seemed to be enjoying the show and everything she was putting me through, she had a satisfied smile on her face as she taunted me with everything she could while I screamed out my lungs."How would you feel about suffocating to death in this very room? Or being burnt alive?" Serafina asked me with a toothy smile.Following her question, and before I could give an answer, the room began to grow smaller till it felt like I was in a tiny well. Only that, Serafina was floating above me, with her long dark hair flowing behind her and making her look like an ideal witch."Let go of me," I pleaded and tried to wake up again but all my effort was to no avail since I ended up feeling strained instead.I had always been scared of confined spaces, and I had no idea how Serafina managed to find out about that and was using it to taunt me.As th
ELYSIA'S POV"She was in my dream," I whispered to Asher, my voice shaky. My body trembled in his hands as I began to recount everything that happened in my dream."I was in this really dark room, she kept taunting me and scaring me, and I felt like she was doing it on purpose."I felt Asher's heartbeat increase and his muscles flex."But that's not the scariest of it," I said and leaned upwards to look into his eyes, then I brought up my wrist to have another look at the band. "She said this is the way she can easily get access to me, she said she can control me through this."Asher got furious and started pacing around the room with his fists clenched."That bitch!" He cursed under his breath."That's not all," I added as calmly as I could. "She repeated that she wanted to use me to pass a message to you, she asked me to tell you that she is coming back to finish what she started." I could feel even my own disarrayed heartbeat when I said the last words because I was scared out of m
ASHER'S POVI angrily slammed the phone on the ground after I got off the call and cursed under my breath.The feeling of frustration was getting worse with each passing moment.Every single attempt I had made at finding another witch to help with the make on Elysia's hand had proved futile, I had made several calls hoping to finally be able to find something with at least one of them, but they all proved futile and I ended up getting frustrated.Why was everything going wrong all at once? And why can't I seem to get a solution to all of these?After feeling frustrated for a few minutes, I decided to go to Aurora's cave to explore it again, hopefully, I would find something that could help.Amidst the bad situation of the pack, I was more disturbed about Elysia's plight and I sincerely wished that Serafina has not gotten her involved her in our issue.The state at which I saw Elysia that morning would not stop haunting me, and the fact that I brought it all on her haunted me even more
ASHER'S POVThe kiss got even more heated, and very soon nothing else mattered to us apart from the fact that we were seeking comfort in each other's arms.Not the fact that we were in my office, neither was it the fact that the office door was not completely locked, neither was it the fact that Elysia had a mark on her hand which was planted by an enraged witch that wanted to punish me in order to have access to her hand.We forgot all our problems for a brief moment, neither of us thought about Serafina or her band or all the haunting games she had been playing on use ever since her arrival instead we both focused on giving each other pleasure.I broke the kiss for a brief moment slowly trailed my lips to Elysia's neck. I bit softly on her neck and I suddenly had the urge to mark her which I pushed away and kissed her there several other times again.I slowly trailed my hand up her thigh till I located her intimidate area with my fingers, she let out a soft moan and rested into my s
ELYSIA'S POVAs soon as I drifted into the world of sleep, I found myself in a beautiful garden on a sunny afternoon. It was the same garden we have at the palace, the same place I usually go to clear my head whenever I'm in deep thought, only that this time, there were even more colourful flowers than there had ever been in the garden.Asher was the first person to come to my mind as I was admiring the flowers, so I decided to collect some very beautiful flowers and put them together to form a very beautiful colour mixture of flowers. I planned to present it to him later but he suddenly showed up in the garden."Is that for me?" He asked, looking down at the flowers."You ruined the surprise," I told him and pouted my lips."But I still got the flower anyway," he smiled down at me and took the flower from my hand.We were having a good time when all of a sudden, the atmosphere became charged and the clouds started to grow dark.I was still trying to figure out what was going on when
ELYSIA'S POVMy heart was beautiful speedily because I felt like something bad was about to happen again. I had become super jumpy these days since all these recent happenings because I always had the feeling that something bad was about to happen.Whenever there was a little commotion and unusual noise, the first thought I got was that there was another problem, or that Serafina had done something else again. In fact, I was always expecting something bad to happen.I and Asher were still there trying to figure out what was going on when some guards ran up to us.I let out a soft gasp because of the speed with which they ran to us.My eyes were open as I looked at them, anticipating the bad news that was about to drop."Some members of the pack have rushed to the palace and are requesting to see you, they are creating a commotion outside and they are insisting they need to see you. And they would not leave no matter how much we try to make them leave." The guard explained."What do th
ELYSIA'S POVBoth I and Asher were over the moon that night after we returned home with our set of twins.We were welcomed home by all the excited pack members and and the servants in the palace when we returned home with our children.They must have been waiting outside the palace as soon as they heard about my delivery.Neither I nor Asher could get any sleep that night because we were too excited. Even the food we were served for rejected because we could not eat it.Instead, we both sat awake watching the faces of the two children."Miraculous isn't it?" Asher asked me as we sat over the babies' cot watching the sleep."We expected just one child, but the goddess ended up giving us two." He told me.I had a bright smile on my face because I had other things in mind.It was difficult for he to believe the drastic turn around in my life within the past year. I remembered that I had come here as I breeder, but here I was, as the Luna and with a set of twins for the Alpha.I began to
ELYSIAI let out a soft gasp and took in a deep breath when I felt the sharp pain in my stomach for the second time that day. Apart from the cramp in my stomach, it was more difficult trying to keep a straight face and pretending to be fine even when I felt that much pain. I tried to ignore the pain, hoping that it would go away soon. After all that wasn't the first time and the doctor had told me several times that the pain was normal.It was already nine months into my pregnancy but I was not yet close to the delivery date the doctor had given me.I was helping out at work in the pack. I had been doing that ever since because Asher had refused to assign another beta after what happened with Nikolai so I had been doing most of the beta work.And I must confess that it had been an interesting one for me all this while since it gave me a sense of belonging and I no longer felt left out.Soon, Asher came in with dinner for me. My eyes lit up the moment I saw him."You look stressed." He
ELYSIA'S POVThe tension which was starting to rise in me since I woke up and found myself in shackles under Nikolai quickly began to clear as soon as my eyes met with Asher's. I sucked in a breath and tried not to let the relief show on my face and instead, keep distracting Nikolai so that Asher could get all the time to do whatever he had to do."Why are you doing this, Nikolai? I thought you and Asher were friends, he trusted you with his life and you chose to do this to him."I was actually really surprised that Nikolai was doing this, despite all the trust Asher had in him."Why am I doing this?" Nikolai scoffed."It's because I'm pained, you moron." He fired at me."I hate the fact that Asher has always been the one to get all the good things. He is the Alpha while I was just his side dog who followed him around like a faithful servant." He fumed."And among all, he is cruel and wicked, while I clean up his messes. Do you know how tiring it is having to be the one to clean up th
ASHER'S POVWhen I got back from the errand I had to run, I went straight into the room to find Elysia. All through my drive back home, my mind had been on Elysia, I could not just wait for the evening so that we would go back to our pack and enjoy the peace which we had missed for the past few months.There was a smile on my face when I pushed the door open because I had gotten Elysia one of her favourite snacks and I was anticipating the look on her face when I handed it over to her.The smile on my face immediately faded when I pushed the door open and noticed that Elysia was not in the room, and from the look of things, it looked like she had been gone for a long.I got a little apprehensive but didn't think much of it. I brushed it off because I had left her under the care of Nikolai. If anything had gone wrong, he would have called immediately to inform me.I thought they had probably gone out for a walk and would be back soon, so I decided to take that chance and pack up our st
ELYSIA'S POVI woke up after a while to see Asher hovering over me and looking into my face.He had a knot on his forehead which immediately began to fade as soon as he noticed that I was awake. He let out a deep breath and leaned in to hug me.I was lying on the bed while Asher was sitting down and hovering over me. I had no idea for how long we had been like that."Thank God you are awake." He whispered to me."For how long have I been asleep?" I asked him and sat up on the bed."For as long as possible," he teased and felt my temperature with the back of his palm. "We are leaving this evening, and I just want to be sure that I have everything right."I nodded, it was about time we went back home after all."What happened at the meeting? How did it end?" I asked him because I could not remember anything that had happened after I made to storm out of the meeting.He explained to me everything that happened after the goddess took over my body the previous day and how she had warned th
ELYSIA'S POVThe Alphas insisted that I should showcase my powers in front of them in order for them to determine if I would remain as Luna or not.A scoff escaped my lips as I watched him spit out the words with so much authority like they were in their rights.I was infuriated with the audacity of the Alphas to make such a request of me. I considered it a direct insult to both I and Asher.Who gave them the right to make such a request of me? Did they think I was some sort of show dog or something that they could push around the way they liked and use for their entertainment?My jaw tightened and my fists clenched with every single word that left the lips of the Alpha who was addressing us.I burst out when I couldn't take it anymore because they were trying to treat me like a show dog instead of a Luna."What exactly do you take me for?" I lashed out at them. "A puppet? That you can order around the way you like? "Stay away from me, all of you and stop trying to control me." I bark
ASHER'S POVI woke up before Elysia the next morning and I lay beside her till she woke up.She stretched herself and her eyes fluttered open to see me leaning over her and looking at her with a smile on my face.She looked around the room in confusion at first, and it took a while before I realized that she was confused as to where she was. It was equally soothing to note that despite her confusion, Elysia was calm seeing my face there.She blinked rapidly for a while and sat up before she finally recalled where we were."For how long have you been awake?" She asked me."I woke up not long ago," I told her even while knowing that I actually didn't get much sleep because I was worried that the Alphas were going to try something while we were asleep."The meeting is scheduled to be held later today," I told her. "After that, we would go back home where it's peaceful, okay," I assured her.She snuggled closer to me and I put my arms around her protectively and rubbed her back. I heard h
ASHER'S POVWe got ready and packed up that night, and the next morning, we set off for the place where the meeting was to be held.We went with two cars because we needed to take along with us the other people who were in the field the other day and some of my men.I kept having a hitch in my breath all through the morning even while we packed up the things we would be needing for the duration of the meeting into the car."Are you ready?" Elysia turned to me once we were done and I swallowed hard."Yes,"I did not seem to be able to get my heart to be at peace all through the drive there because I was worried. I could not just shake off the feelings that something was going to go wrong.I felt the strong urge to suddenly turn the car around and return to my pack, but I knew I could not do that because whether I liked it or not, I would eventually have to answer to the call of the other Alphas and I realized that the earlier I did that, the better for both I and Elysia.I knew Elysia
ELYSIA'S POVAt first, it felt like I was floating in a cluster of clouds since I could no longer feel my body touching the ground, instead, I felt strong arms around me and holding me closely to a soft body.My eyes fluttered open to see Asher carrying me securely in his arms.I blinked my eyes open and looked into his face."Asher," I mumbled.He looked a little bit upset and didn't even spare me even the slightest smile."What were you doing falling asleep in the nursery where you could have gone to bed?" He asked me crossly.I wrapped my arms tightly around his neck and hugged him."I was trying to put it in order since you were out with Nikolai, you didn't come back on time so I thought I should do something to pass the time," I said, pouting."But, you shouldn't have fallen asleep there, you know sleeping like that on the ground could be dangerous for our child." He said and used one of his hands to push the room door open.I had considered that earlier, but I didn't realize whe